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Data also shows only one prosecution and follow-ups on one-third of 10,000 complaints made since January 2022

There has been just one prosecution and three fines handed out for people using banned wood-burning stoves in England, data has revealed.

Despite more than 10,000 complaints about wood being burned in populated areas since January 2022, local councils have not been enforcing the government’s “tough new restrictions” on stoves. Two-thirds of these complaints were not followed up, and only a handful led to any action.

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We particularly invite candidates from the Global South, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa and East Africa. You will bring leadership and strategic vision, gleaned from VCM experience and insight pertaining to Nature Based Solutions methodologies, protocols and regulatory frameworks that govern carbon credit sales.

An environmental markets brokerage and a carbon project financier have joined forces to launch a new investment vehicle aimed at the CO2 removals market.

A new role with an innovative fintech start-up preparing to scale up. As the Clean Energy Devices Manager your role will be a critical link. You will bring leadership and strategic thinking gleaned from experience and understanding of the processes of projecting, monitoring and verifying carbon values relating to CEDs. Specifically digital technologies for remote monitoring of CED activities.

Strategists are getting nervous, but energy efficiency and kickstarting growth are important to voters

Just as I sat down to write this, yet another one thumped into my inbox. “£28bn every year … Labour have not changed – their irresponsible spending plans will result in higher taxes and hard-working people paying the price.” Conservative campaign headquarters is hammering out daily attacks on Labour’s £28bn green prosperity plan.

Seeking any gap in the Starmer-Reeves fiscal armour, they like to pretend there’s been no change since the Corbyn campaign’s surprise £58bn extra spend, mid-election campaign. But that’s a rubber sword after their own 13-year failed stewardship – and Liz Truss’s fiscal fiasco.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

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A phenomenal opportunity in a senior leadership role. Heading up a technical component of an innovative start-up project that exists to improve integrity of fintech pertaining to the carbon credit market. The project directly links to the genuine benefit of micro-projects mitigating the impact of climate change. We just need your leadership and strategic gravitas to join us.

Consultant - Climate Change and Carbon Markets This unique opportunity is for a technical consultant to work for a collaborative & reputable boutique consultancy, active on international carbon markets. This is a dynamic & exciting environment.

European carbon prices advanced strongly as the Dec-23 began its last day of trading on Monday morning and the final auction of 2023 took place, with prices gaining strong support from a sharp jump in natural gas prices responding to news that a major producer was suspending shipments through the Red Sea.

Two huge lithium-ion batteries, and the Broken Hill compressed air storage project, win storage tender in result that may lead to rethink of what long duration storage technologies will look like.

The post World’s biggest eight-hour lithium battery wins NSW long duration storage tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW lands another $4.2 billion in wind, solar and storage projects, including big wins for Andrew Forrest and Neoen, and three ground-breaking long duration storage projects.

The post NSW secures another $4.2 billion of wind, solar and storage to help shift from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Britain will formally consider introducing a supply adjustment mechanism to its carbon market to help balance future shifts in demand and mitigate the risk of sustained low prices, it announced on Monday, as prices rallied following the announcement of a consultation on the measure and the publication of associated documents.

Plan, which aims to support domestic producers, will also apply to iron, ceramics and cement

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Imported raw materials such as steel and cement will incur a new carbon tax from 2027 under UK plans designed to support domestic producers and reduce emissions, but the government is facing criticism for not moving fast enough.

The Treasury said the tax would help address the phenomenon of “carbon leakage”, in which UK manufacturers are undercut on price by foreign rivals whose governments do not impose levies on businesses that emit a lot of carbon.

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The next generation of wildlife photographers are showcased in the RSPCA Young Photographer awards 2023. Here’s a selection of the winning entries, capturing the natural world around them

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The market for nature-based solutions is growing in demand and scale, as larger institutional investment managers begin to enter, an academic paper has said.

Mitsubishi Corporation  will work with Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group on an initial study to decarbonise the Southeast Asian country’s large industrial sector.

Australia’s Climate Change Authority recommended in a paper Monday that non-biological ways of capturing carbon including direct air capture (DAC), carbon mineralisation, and biochar be eligible for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to drive uptake of these newer forms of carbon removal.

The UK government announced Monday that it will introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) by 2027 on big-emitting sectors, a deadline of a year later than the EU is due to introduce its own system.

Quitting flying as a travel writer was easier than I expected. Now for the hard part: convincing my family to do the same

As a travel writer, I’m used to receiving invitations to five-star resorts in far-flung destinations such as the Seychelles, all expenses paid. But now I ignore these emails. I quit flying three years ago. I’m not afraid to fly; I stopped because of the climate crisis. In addition to travel, I write about green issues, and I decided I could no longer in good conscience specialise in sustainability while continuing to fly.

I was a late convert to the cause, taking a plane to Israel in 2020 to write about a Palestinian cycle advocacy group. A trip like that would be off limits to me today, even if peace broke out any time soon. It’s all but impossible to reach Israel from Europe without flying. It’s almost as tough to reach the Antipodes from the UK without a long-haul flight, so bang goes a quick-ish trip to New Zealand or Australia.

Carlton Reid is a freelance transport journalist

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On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice’s movement and takes photos. Later, he creates a report that includes data from sensors and another camera installed near the Shisper glacier to update his village an hour’s hike downstream. His mission: to mobilise his community of 200 families in Hassanabad, in the Karakoram mountains, to fight for a future for their village and way of life, increasingly under threat from unstable lakes formed by melting glacier ice

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Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has released a report into the auditing process of human-induced regeneration projects (HIR), also known as “gateway checks”, however its conclusions came under immediate scrutiny from other experts.